So Are You Building a Real List? Oh Really! I may shock you now.

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These are just SOME of the business cards I collected a couple of years back when I did a ton of local networking. Yesterday I dug them out and thought DUH Rachel. You’re building a huge list online but what about all these guys?

Now this doesn’t mean I didn’t do the trusty MLM pitch on them way back when cause the chances are I did BUT why are these peeps not in my email list receiving the odd update from me about what I have to offer them in terms of products and services (inc. Network Marketing)

What if their situation has changed? As I’m unable to be present (and don’t really want to be!) at every local networking event how on earth would they stay in touch with me?

This is a classic example of how most networkers are shown to build their candidate list and prospect everyone on it and follow up until they jump off the fence either way.

What then? Some of you may be groaning now as you see where I’m going with this.

Imagine if I (after 7 years of prospecting) had kept every contact through the trillions of leads I bought back in the day and all the networking I’ve done. And what If I’d kept all the emails of my team members who’ve slipped away?

Wow can you imagine how many people I’d be able to stay in touch with just by sending them the odd email with some cool stuff I’m learning along the way?

I’m willing to bet there are 6 figure networkers amongst you who don’t have a list that you can easily communicate with, of all your contacts from the years you’ve been building the business.

You may say ‘well I can find them in my outlook or they’re in my phone.’ What about when you change your phone or your computer dies and you shift to a new one and lose all those email addresses and numbers?

I know it happens cause it has happened to me. SO. What can YOU do today even if you have no BLOG and no capture page and are a complete tecnno twit?

What is your strategy for offering them value to keep them connected with you, rather than phoning them up every 6 months to see if they’re ‘ready’ to give you their credit card number? They may never be ready for your MLM business but they might be ready to buy an MLM product or a cool marketing product from you. (No and before you think of excuses you don’t need to make one yourself!)

Start reconnecting with ALL of the people you know inc. the dreaded friends and family and just ask them if you can pop them on your email list to stay in touch with them now and then so they can forward on the info to anyone they know who might find it helpful.

This is for you if you’ve got piles of old contacts that didn’t join your MLM – do you think they might buy an MLM product from you down the road if you were to stay in touch with them … AND

It’s ALSO for you newbies (I know you’re there) who think you have nothing to offer cause you’re not a ‘GURU.’ You don’t need to be a guru to build your own list.

From now on everyone you meet, instead of breaking out in a cold sweat about how you’re gonna ‘get em in’ your MLM, focus on how you can be in touch with them again.

Collect their card and or get their name to connect on Facebook. If they are business people ask them if you can add them to your mailing list so you can be in touch with them now.

You see how it works?

If you have an auto-responder (with 12 peeps in it!) get cracking. You can add them easily to a list of say ‘local business people’ or ‘family and friends’ and just drop them an informal email to let them know you will be sending them stuff that may help them or someone they know. (They can opt out if they don’t want to be on it but just ask them if it’s ok)

If you are truly doing this, by the end of the year you could have thousands of people on your list ranging from the local right through to peeps you meet on holiday or MLM trips.

Warning. If you don’t do this you are gambling. Will they join my MLM now or not? Yes = cool
No = complete waste of time and no relationship building and no long term safety net

Ok getting the idea? Even if you have no auto-responder (come on guys its $9 a month to build your security) you can still do this even with a card box or manual emails. Not my cup of tea but really there are no excuses for not being in touch with people over a long period of time.

Here’s my old card box from my first company when I was an MLM virgin and retail ninja. These guys are not in my email list! Gonna put that right though now.

Do what you know how to do today. Don’t make excuses. If you only have an empty card filebox like this then use it. That is the start of your ‘list,’ The golden nugget here is that you must make a way to stay in touch with these people even when they are not just current customers or prospects.

I made thousands and thousands of pounds with this box and you can do the same with your list even if you have no one on it yet. We all know people and you can start to add them not sell them!

Social networking has made it thousands of times easier to reconnect so start rebuilding your connections today. I’m gonna add all those people on these cards to a list and drop them a little email. If there’s no email I’ll be looking for them on Facebook or phoning them just to reconnect and ask if its ok to add them to my mailing list to stay in touch.

If you need an autoresponder I highly recommend this one. It’s super easy to use and you can manually add people as long as you’re telling them you’re doing it. Yes this is an affiliate link and you can get a free trial here if you want. Set Up Cheap Auto-Responder

Ok enough list ranting but really it had to be said!

I set up a new Business Page on Facebook so please come ‘like’ me and let’s connect over there too. I’ll be giving out lots of tips and training for building your business.I seem to be having trouble with people finding this page so if you try to ‘like’ me and can’t see it could you pretty please leave me a comment to let me know? (Thanks)
Rachel Henke on Facebook

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Last post we covered time management for social media. This week let’s talk about time management for your MLM business.

With the Information Age come time management challenges like the world has never seen before!

Yes we all have our usual time management challenges such as managing our jobs and businesses.

You may be busy caring for your children and juggling lots of other commitments but on top of that we now have information coming at us through the internet cables at such a speed it makes your head spin.

This is the best thing. No that’s the best thing. And on it goes on; day after day.

Marketers (like me!) trying to get and keep your attention.

I’m going to be really straight with you and tell you what I think you need to do (and not to do!) to stay sane and moving forward with your MLM business in this crazy internet world!

Top Tips for Time Management for MLM

1) Do not sign up for everything! You will never read it all, follow it all and will probably end up confused and do nothing.

2) Pick one or two people that give great value in the area that you want to master (you might for instance receive my weekly ezines because you want to learn how to attract prospects to your online)

3) Study what your new mentors teach and start to IMPLEMENT the best strategies that can work for the MLM of your choice

4) Focus on what you CAN DO; not what you can’t do. Take baby steps but monitor yourself so you are moving forward with your to do lists everyday.

5) Make yourself a schedule everyday BEFORE you start work. Put specific times for beginning and ending activities. Then move on! Don’t waste time chit chatting on the internet and reading gossip and news.

6) Include 30 minutes- 1 hour of prospecting time for each day. This may be from your warm market list or for calling back your prospects that have come into your marketing funnel to request more info about your MLM. Don’t buy into this deluded idea that you can build an MLM business without picking up the phone!

7) Counsel with your upline. If your upline stinks go further upline! If there is no one who can support you there then you might want to ask yourself if you’re batting with the right team. You have two choices; become the upline or move to a team where you can get better coaching and leadership. It all works but do one or the other and don’t waste time moaning!

Create a 90 day plan. Your MLM business is built through creating momentum. This comes from CONSISTENCY. If you speak to 2 people this week (and I don’t care if you found them in Tesco’s or they came to you through your magical online funnel) it is not enough. You are playing the LOTTERY. 2 people a day bring freedom your way is the old cliché and it still rings true today. With online marketing you need more than that so that 2 people a day are actually looking at your MLM presentation.

9) Record your marketing and prospecting activity. Then you will know why you got the results you did when you review your business. 90 Day plan means head down and don’t keep stopping and questioning yourself. Just do it. 90 days of real consistent activity. 90 days will pass very quickly whether you do it or not so why not do it? My God it may even work! You might start signing people up that came to your through the internet (or wherever!) Imagine …

10) Turn off all distractions. Prospecting time means you are making outgoing calls to prospects. Do just that; don’t try to reply on skype and message on Facebook at the same time. Networking time is different to prospecting time. Control your time so you are proactive not reactive. If you are reactive all the time you will probably never get anything done except responding to other people’s needs.

I hope this was useful for you. If it was then please share the love on the buttons below. You can receive weekly blog posts like this and lots more tips by signing up for my MLM Rockstar ezine on the top right of this blog. 90 Days get set….GO!

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I don’t know about you but if I don’t make a conscious effort to MANAGE my time, it somehow manages me!

My morning or even entire day can just flash right past me as I discover new and amazing things online. Perhaps it’s the same for you?

There are new launches and new tools and endless new fantabulous things coming at us every day online.

If you are serious about building a long term passive income with MLM you will need to learn how to use your time effectively.

Working online provides brilliant tools but it can also be a tremendous distraction from the job at hand; exposing your business opportunity to new people every day.

So here are some tips to help keep you on track. You don’t want to look back in a few years and wonder what you’ve been doing online all this time, with no cheque to show for it!

Tips for using Social Media for MLM

1) Choose 1 or 2 social sites and focus on mastering them. Avoid jumping into more than that and not really learning how to use them to build your list and generate leads. I recommend starting with Facebook and Twitter as these are the easiest to use.

2) Use the tools available to you. I recommend tweetdeck.com for organising your Twitter and connecting it up with Facebook. (You can update both at same time)

Also use your phone to send updates when you’re away or out and about so your Twitter stays ALIVE. It takes only a matter of seconds to tweet!

Connect up your Twitter profile to your Blog or capture page so you can generate leads when people check you out as a result of your dynamic tweeting.

Use the 80/20 rule. 80% sharing value RELATED to MLM or personal development etc. but NOT pitching and 20% tweets that lead directly into your MLM funnel.

3) Use a customized marketing funnel that leads with a free giveaway such as a free report or video so that prospects exchange their info with you and join your list and become MLM leads.

4) Use auto-responders to follow up with your prospects AND call them using a script so you save time and know exactly what to say

5) Use a system; i.e.; you provide good content such as Blog posts, tweets, facebook networking, and generate MLM leads to your funnel.

Then they receive whatever the information is they signed up for.

You call them and ‘interview’ them.

If they are a good prospect introduce them to your business partner so they can edify you and the prospect can see you are part of a supportive and successful team.

Continue to build your list by marketing with social media every day.

6) Make a marketing schedule. You might do 30 minutes in the morning before work and a couple of hours in the evening. Write down what you are going to do BEFORE you start. Don’t allow yourself to go round and round without accomplishing real activities.

7) Take some time each day to go into Facebook and Twitter and reply and thank people who have retweeted your tweets and/or commented on your stuff.

Ok that’s it for today. I hope that helps you and if you enjoyed it please take a moment to share it on the buttons below. It’s all part of being social with social media. We can’t do it all on our own!

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Ok so if you followed Step 1 you hopefully have your MLM marketing funnel in place OR are in the process of creating one for your team or plugging into your upline leader’s system.

Let’s talk about how to do the most important thing of all which is to stay alive in this business. You must have a flow of prospects. There is a ton of stuff you can do offline to attract prospects to your online MLM funnel but today we’re focussing on driving traffic online.

Step 2

First of all I’d like to say that this is neither a mystical or magical process! If you have an effective funnel (with something of great value to offer) in place and you drive enough prospects to it SOME WILL sign up for more information.

It is scientific actually. That’s what I love about online marketing. So what are your options for marketing your MLM online funnel or blog?

Online Marketing Options

No to Low budget options:

Social media

Facebook
Twitter
Digg.com and other bookmarking sites
Squidoo (less effective for MLM these days)
Hub Pages
Articles (such as ezinearticles.com )
Google Blogger
Video marketing (free if you already have a camera!)
Traffic Exchanges
Other social networks

Advertising

Free Ads such as Craigslist

Press Releases

Medium to High Budget:

Video Marketing (need good camera – I recommend FLIP)
Wordpress self hosted blog. (very cost effective)
Ezine adverts
Banner adverts
Paid social networks
Paid press releases
Lead Lists
Buying traffic
Google Pay per Click
Yahoo Pay per Click

Facebook Pay per Click
Synnd (content syndication of your blog or website)
(Synnd is like dynamite for your wordpress blog or website)
Outsourcing some of these methods so you are free to build the business

Consider these things as you put your Network Marketing Plan together:

What is your passion?

Each one of these is a big world unto itself! You will need some training but the best thing is to figure out which methods you think suit you best i.e.; are you a writer or a talker? Do you ‘have a face for radio?’ or are you happiest on video in the limelight?

What is your budget?
Are you no budget, low budget or high budget? This needs to be consistent for at least 90 days so you can gain momentum and have time to generate cashflow with your MLM to get your money back. One month all out is not going to constitute a marketing plan!

What is your skill set?
This may overlap with your passion. We usually love to do what we are good at! Evaluate your skills and figure out what you need to improve and where you can make the most impact with what you already know.

I recommend you invest in your skills and knowledge so you can be more effective with some of these.

Next time we’ll move on to Step 3 of the blueprint: Enrolling your Prospects

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So we’ve talked about how to attract prospects into your list using affiliate programs or funded proposals. Check out the post here if you want to read more about affiliate marketing for MLM

Now let’s talk about how to attract prospects to your MLM team this month!

There’s so much confusion here and so many differing opinions that business builders often get stuck because they don’t know which is best for them.

Perhaps you want to use technology and love the idea of online marketing but just don’t understand how to put it all together?

‘Attraction Marketing’ is such a buzz phrase these days but what is it really?

Some think it’s all about affiliate marketing. Others just don’t get it at all. I think in its purest form it’s exactly what it says, ‘Attraction Marketing.’ It’s as old as the bible and King Solomon was practicing it with great success!

Using affiliate programs and building your list with it is just the popular way it’s being used now. Joe Schroeder of the Million Mind March, the Cash Flow Recruiting Machine and Quick Link, likes to say he invented Attraction Marketing in the 90s.

If you were to chat with Dan Kennedy or read some of his books you’d find that he thinks he put it on the map too.

Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring fame has been a student of both Joe Schroeder and Dan Kennedy and as Mike has exploded the whole attraction marketing model for MLM there must be some truth in their claims.

However I don’t think Attraction Marketing has to be about affiliates do you? That is just a way of effectively monetizing your email list. The downside is that many people end up just selling online books and programs and DO NOT BUILD THEIR MLM RESIDUAL INCOME!

They spend hours and hours online each day promoting gurus and rambling on about how great Mike Dillard, Mike Klingler and Ann Sieg are. That’s all well and good but what about YOU and your business? They have theirs and you are promoting it!

I don’t know about you but as much as I love making some extra dollars online with affiliates I enjoy my residual income from my MLM business much more!

If you choose a good company and team and build it right you have an excellent chance of creating a long term MLM Rockstar income so that you can spend your time a few years down the line relaxing and doing whatever it is you really love to do.

I’m going for that. How about you? Sales is great for instant cash but how about building your MLM fast so you get upfront cash, as you do with some of the best new MLM compensation plans BUT at the same time you’re building your residual and passive income? Sound good to you?

Attraction Marketing is simply setting up your business and content so that people can find YOU and whatever it is you want them to find. It can work with on and offline marketing materials but here we’ll cover online.

So how do we use attraction marketing to attract prospects to actually review our MLM rather than just buy affiliate products through our links?

Today I’ll share my blueprint with you that is working for me and enabling me to enrol some amazing people into my MLM business WHO FIND ME ONLINE:

Step 1: Set up your online MLM marketing funnel FIRST. Bearing in mind that you can still use all the principles of Attraction Marketing you need a funnel that attracts prospects to sign up to receive some more info from you.

You can use a wordpress blog that talks about your MLM such as this: MLM Blog Example AND/OR

You can set up a capture page attraction marketing system for you and your team to use such as this: MLM Team Example

Please don’t copy mine! I’m sharing my real stuff with you here as I know how important it is for you but there are enough words to go round for us all to be original with our content.

With the blog you have the advantages of using the power of wordpress and you can let your team use it as a group blog to generate leads as we do. Notice how you can have the sign up box say who referred the prospect.

The other system which we use very successfully is to have a capture page and auto-responder marketing funnel which markets your MLM Team and you provide it for your MLM Team Members.

With both of these options the major benefit is that your team can be active online BEFORE or WITHOUT EVER having to figure out all the confusing stuff about how to create pages and marketing funnels.

You can create the system for your team (it’s not that complicated if you understand the basics of setting up a marketing funnel.) You can outsource it to a good web designer and copywriter.

Notice how in both options we offer something of real VALUE for the prospect to receive – in this case it’s a Cash Flow Class. It’s not a ‘join my MLM because it’s brilliant!’ I hope you can see the difference here because it is SO important for your success.

Unless someone is ready to join your MLM and is just shopping for a sponsor you must have something valuable to ATTRACT your prospect to review the MLM info.

It could be a team audio, video, e-book, short report, email training course… the options are endless really but to recruit direct to your MLM it must be about your MLM Team and your MLM Company.

It’s a more direct approach and it works great for those who are SERIOUS about creating long term residual income… not just clicking around online selling this and that.

I’m using real life examples here for you because I know that theory is no use to you. You don’t want to hear more rehashed guru copywriting about how you can recruit 20 people a month blah blah using someone’s system do you?

You want the real stuff about how and what we DO online to make it happen. Am I right?

Keep tuned into my blog if you’re interested in learning more about creating unique marketing funnels and wordpress blogs because I’ll be adding some more training about exactly HOW TO do those things very soon.

Ok next time we’ll cover Step 2 of the Blueprint of Attraction Marketing direct to your MLM. We’ll be talking about how to drive traffic to your MLM marketing funnel.

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Catch up on Key 1 here

Find Key 2 here

Building a Relationship

This sounds so obvious but how many networkers actually do it? There is a reason that we are trained to contact our warm market or circle of influence BEFORE we venture out into the big wide world to find new people.

The reason is that we ALREADY have a relationship with our warm market so we don’t need to spend valuable time when launching our business BUILDING relationships. Makes sense right?

So when you generate MLM leads or attract prospects or just meet an interesting person in your daily life what should you?

It may be easier to cover first what you should NOT DO!

No pitching them the minute you meet them
No foaming at the mouth when they mention they are looking for something!
No rambling on and on about your life changing wonder product….

Ok I think you get the picture right?

What TO DO:

Listen to what they have to say and ask them questions AND LISTEN AGAIN to the answers

Listen some more…

Establish some common ground or build some bridges between you i.e.: you both used to live in London or New Jersey OR

You both have a new baby OR

You both just got divorced OR and the list goes on

Seek and you shall find some kind of commonality.

As we’re focussing on building MLM using affiliate marketing here let’s be specific to that. The best way to build a relationship with your affiliates is to give lots of good value with the information you provide.

That way they come to see you as someone they can trust. If they are in the right place to look for a new opportunity they will probably check out your business.

Make it easy for them to do! Don’t HIDE it like your MLM is some dirty little secret behind your affiliate marketing.

In your follow up messages integrate a little bit of information about your MLM business and working with you like I have done with my affiliate marketing system.

By the same token don’t hit them over the head with it if you want to maintain and build a large list of affiliates.

It can be as quick as that or as slow as you building a relationship for 6 months and never getting up the nerve to talk about your business. Then they come back and tell you they joined a new company. Ouch!

Top Tip: If you struggle with relationship building and talking to strangers read ‘How to make friends and influence people,’ by Dale Carnegie. I can’t say enough good things about this classic book. It’s a book to keep on your bookshelf and to keep reading again and again.

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Ok so you’ve analyzed yourself and are aligned with the perfect MLM business and are ready to start attracting prospects.

It sounds a little esoteric or even mystical doesn’t it? Well let’s simplify it and look at what it really is and is not. It is the process of LEAD GENERATION.

Lead Generation is the lifeblood of building a big business and whether you do warm market networking or online list building or BOTH (recommended especially when launching) you MUST HAVE MLM LEADS!!

Doh you say. We know that Rachel. That’s why we’re trying to figure all this confusing Attraction Marketing stuff out!

Ok I hear you. Just wanted to be sure that you’re really listening!

So attraction marketing is not about being some guru leader (although there are many) It’s more about positioning your marketing content on the internet in strategic places that will attract suitable prospects to you.

When you set your marketing up right and have a compelling message it becomes scientific. If you type my name into Google at this time of writing there are 33,700 references and most of them are to me.

I think there’s an actress and maybe even a President of an orchid society too but I dominate as you can see:

Imagine all the keywords that bring up my blog and marketing pieces all over the internet. Can you see how it becomes scientific and if people search using my niche keywords they CANNOT HELP but find me! Sweet.

You can do this for your MLM Company and/or for your niche market and affiliate products. I digress though as we’ll cover Attraction Marketing direct to your MLM (without affiliate marketing in the next series)

So to summarize Key 2 you need to do ENOUGH to start being FOUND! Don’t worry you don’t need this many references to make money and generate leads. I was being found pretty much off the get go by promoting my site with ezine articles.

Add in the other millions of ways you can choose from to generate MLM leads such as blogs, using Twitter, Facebook, Hub Pages, Ezine Paid Advertising, Pay per Click etc. etc.

It is really not that complicated when you get clear on what you want to do. So Lead Generation by CREATING CONTENT and attracting prospects into YOUR MARKETING FUNNEL is the name of the game. (Not the End Game though!)

Stay tuned for Key 3 ….

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So in the last blog posts we covered the basics of building the business.

Today we’re going to talk about how to build the business with affiliate marketing or funded proposals.

It’s not for everyone and that’s ok. Some people get completely distracted and overwhelmed with offering a range of products at their website or blog.

Others love to monetize the process of creating new contacts and building relationships through email and online marketing.

If you’re reading this article then the chances are that you are already using or are researching how to use affiliate marketing or a funded proposal combined with online network marketing.

If this all sounds a bit confusing then go back and read my basic posts here first: 7 Secrets of Launching MLM

So let’s say you’re fine and dandy with your warm market contact list. You’re working through it and have had a few new enrolees and customers. You’re following the training that your upline is providing and you’re EXCITED.

Then you start to look on the internet and see if there is a way for you to do some business building online. You start to opt into various marketers lists and before you know it you are MORE CONFUSED than a bee in a flower shop.

You’re hearing from Mike Dillard about the magic of Magnetic Sponsoring, Ann Sieg is emailing you about the Renegade Network Marketer (and telling you that you’re upline is basically useless) and Mike Klingler is talking about getting the technical skills you need from Renegade University or Renegade Professional!

You’re getting more and more excited about ALL THIS MONEY you are going to make but in the back of your mind you’re beginning to wonder if this was such a good idea after all! How the heck are you ever going to promote all these different things that for online affiliate marketing seem to be the ABCs?

How on earth are you ever going to find time or the focus to enrol someone in your Network Marketing business with all these other things to promote?

How are you ever going to understand all this?

How will you work with your upline in your MLM if they don’t understand this?

These are the kind of questions that I receive in my inbox and on my blackberry very often! People are so confused. The most confused of all is the new network marketer who has just ordered his pack and instead of making his candidate list and learning the basics of inviting, with his upline has instead jumped straight into Attraction Marketing with Affiliate Marketing.

I really feel for these guys. They are really up against it unless they learn the basics with a good mentor.

STOP! Let’s cover the 4 Magic Keys to building your MLM business using affiliate marketing without losing your mind, your hair and possibly even your spouse before you enrol your first team member!!

Key 1

Keep your mind on your MLM end game. Do you know what your end game is? Unless you want it to be ironically but tragically similar to the famous Samuel Beckett one-act play with just four characters, you had better get clear on it BEFORE you start building your list and trying to attract prospects to you using affiliate marketing.

Here are some questions to get you going:

Am I 100% committed to building my Network Marketing business with XYZ Company?

If yes – what are my monthly volume quotas to receive my royalty cheque?

Do I need a large customer base to qualify or can I focus mainly on recruiting?

How many hours per week have I got available to do the core fundamentals of building and maintaining my business?

Depending on which company you’re with and how you are building your business this may include things like:

Providing orientation training for new team members

Coaching and assisting them with 3 way calls and working their candidate list

Attending/Running Local Business Builder Meetings or online webinars

Attending local networking events

Following up with your prospects

Enrolling them

Plus lots more!

It’s quite a lot to do and if you only have 10-15 hours per week to work the business part-time like most people do you will need to get very clear on your daily method of operation.

If you spend your spare 2 hours trying to figure out how to install a wordpress blog you will be neglecting the very core activities that will build your cheque.

So Key 1 is to get very clear on what and how you are building your core MLM business.

If you want to use affiliate marketing as part of your overall strategy to bring prospects into your list then I recommend that you set up your OWN MARKETING FUNNEL or MLM ONLINE SYSTEM ASAP!

Don’t build someone else’s list. Build your own! Set up your marketing funnel so that your prospect becomes YOUR LEAD FIRST, not the lead of Mike Dillard, Mike Klingler or Ann Sieg. I love these guys but they have enough leads already, and plenty of money to show for their awesome efforts.

What about you? Ok so if you’re clear on wanting to use and recommend affiliate marketing products to learn how to be more effective with online marketing, and to monetize your list building whether the prospects join your MLM or NOT…

You need your own marketing funnel. You can either learn how to make one (which is very possible but takes some time and study) or you can plug into an existing one.

There are lots of Attraction Marketing Systems around on the internet. Many are completely over-hyped, over rated and will confuse the socks off you some more because you will be pitched every 3 minutes on the latest hot affiliate product.

No no no. Choose carefully because you need focus if you want to win your MLM END GAME. You also don’t want to introduce your team members to a system where they are being distracted every day by other opportunities right?

This is what happened to me when I first started to figure out how to use the internet to build my business. I was so excited BUT so distracted!

So I came up with a solution that would enable me to build my own list, generate commissions with affiliate marketing but retain my focus on building my long term residual and passive income.

You can use it too if you like. It works with any MLM – whichever one you choose. Go here for more details: MLM Online Funnel

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Secret 2

Have a positive attitude of expectancy. Many new team members are absolutely fine with making a list when they see it is the normal thing to do here. What else are you going to do with them? Have them invest $2000 per month in Google adwords so they don’t have to talk to anyone they know?

They will widdle in their panties with fear, both at losing money and talking to strangers. New team members don’t really like talking to strangers.

If they won’t do a list because they are wounded MLM soldiers then they will need to take massive action with networking on or offline. This works well when done consistently over a period of time but is SLOW for launching.

By the time they have a good prospect so you can train them they have forgotten why they joined! With no list they will probably need to do paid advertising to launch so they have enough leads, which is not ideal for a new team member as you want to get them into profitability asap. not further into debt!

So Secret No.2 is about giving some leadership and expecting your new people to take action to launch their business and follow your business plan.

Secret No.3 will be coming soon! Why not leave a comment with one of your best ’secrets’ for helping your new team members to launch fast without spending a fortune on MLM leads etc.

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Duplication, duplication, duplication in MLM! It can be a double edged sword…

How Can You Be Unique Online and Still Duplicate in MLM?

On the one hand you want to build a large organization of team members who know exactly what to do each day to build their business.

On the other – if you’re reading this anyway – you most likely want to use some online marketing to boost your prospecting.

It’s a tricky one and can trip up a lot of well meaning distributors. Many are inspired to make great videos and write wonderful articles but then their downline can’t seem to do the same.

Top Tip: I’ve noticed that no matter what you do the majority of your downline simply do what they want to do anyway so do not waste too much time fretting about this one!

You could have the most perfect ‘SYSTEM’ in the MLM universe and still most folks will find reasons to change it or do something different. It is the nature of team members aka people!

I hear you ask but how does that help me Rachel?

Okay here goes. I’m going to give you some concrete ways that you can use online marketing to attract more prospects and which you can help your downline with at the same time.

How’s that?

5 DUPLICATABLE Ways to Build Your MLM Team Online

1) When creating articles, videos, blog posts, tweets or any other content BE YOU. (Your best positive YOU of course!) Anyone and EVERYONE including all of your team members know how to be themselves.

This is essential in online marketing. They can’t try to pretend to be you. That being said, make sure to also work with them on posture and attitude. That way they can come across as their BEST self too.

2) Keep it simple. For online marketing you MUST, I repeat MUST have an online mlm funnel which attracts your prospects to put their details in so they join your MLM prospect list.

If your team members want to work online then either recommend they use the same MLM funnel/website as you to collect leads OR make one for your team. Yes it is that simple. One or the other.

There are no other options! Unless you call zooming around online, drowning people with information instead of attracting them into your ‘world,’ an option?

Once in your funnel you can build a relationship with them and educate them with elegance on what you have to offer.

3) Provide pre-written auto-responders (follow up email messages) for your team members. The easier the set up for them, the better. It still AMAZES me how many people over 25 haven’t a clue about anything technical online.

And then of course there is the copywriting. You can make a great website and online funnel for your team but if you can’t write compelling copy you might just as well whistle in the wind. (or go out and do some flyers..)

Pay someone to do your copy for your website and auto-responders OR recruit the skills that your business needs. You probably already have someone in your downline or upline who can write good copy. Trade skills.

4) Whatever content you create well, make it easy for your team to share it too.

Let’s say you write good articles. Write some 500 word articles and encourage your team to use them on their blogs. They can leave the author name and copyright on the bottom but they get to add their website link to collect any leads generated as a result of the article.

Other people can reprint your articles through article sharing sites so why not have your guys share them to build your team?

Have the person who creates the content put it first on their blog so they get maximum benefit on the search engines.

5) If you or someone on your team can make short videos (2 mins is long enough!) you can edit them in windows movie maker and add a team blog or website link to the video clip.

When the prospect visits the Team blog or website it can just say ‘name of person who referred you,’ as one of the fields to complete to enter the site. (see my company blog as an example if you like: MLM Team Blog)

With videos there isn’t even a duplicate content issue and everyone can write their one short paragraph to promote the video on their YouTube account or blog.

There you go – that way you can generate leads using the same blog or website. Not all of your team members are going to get to grips with having their own blogs etc.

BUT they may still want to participate in the online experience by having their webpage or shared blog link on their Twitter or Facebook page.

If you don’t teach them how to network well – the odds are they may network rather badly!

Happy Networking

p.s If you still don’t have your own MLM Online System you can set one up easily here: MLM Online System.

p.s.s Please leave your comments and any questions. That way I’ll be able to serve you better by answering some of them in future posts.

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